NVIDIA sees more demand for discrete laptop GPUs

Posted on Wednesday, March 09 2011 @ 21:12 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
NVIDIA GeForce unit general manager Drew Henry revealed at the company's financial analyst day that the number of discrete GPUs in laptops are growing:
According to a high-ranking Nvidia Corp. executive, in 2011 there will be more notebooks with standalone graphics processors than in 2010.

The number of notebook designs that support discrete graphics option this year will be higher compared to that in 2010 and prior years, said Drew Henry, general manager of GeForce business at Nvidia, at the company's financial analyst day. Mr. Henry declined to get exact numbers even about Nvidia's own design wins, but the general trends outlined by the company's arch-rival ATI (graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices) and industrial analysts confirm that slowly but surely the amount of notebooks with discrete graphics processing units (GPUs) are gaining ground.


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